Kim Wehle
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first heard Sep 2024
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So the book tries to kind of fill in that gap and start this conversation along with these other assaults on our democracy that is so precious and so vulnerable in this moment.
Well, I will quote Justice Scalia, who years ago, before we even in this moment, he said, this is not the time in history to have a constitutional convention itself, because who knows what we'd come up with, what kind of nonsense we'd come up with.
But I do think there should be a constitutional amendment.
There's been one already introduced in the House of Representatives to get rid of the immunity case, to basically put the Constitution back where it was in May before it came down.
It's just kind of fixing the brokenness.
But that included a ban on self-pardons.
I would expand that to include a ban on
on giving pardons to accomplices and co-conspirators and criminal enterprises that have now been green-lighted by this immunity.
So I think this is a place that there should be an amendment to the Constitution.
I think we should have an amendment to the Constitution to have an affirmative, clear right to vote.
I think that would address a lot of the problems we have
And people will say, oh, that'll never happen.
But there's been over 11,000 proposed, Don, amendments to the Constitution.
Twenty seven of them did make it, including the most recent in the 1970s.
So this is a moment for Americans to say to recognize that we do have power and there's power in numbers, which is why there's so many efforts to take the vote away from people.
Yeah, I have some recommendations.
Our friend John Dean, who I'm sure you've interviewed many times, White House Counsel for Richard Nixon, did the foreword for the book.
And he argues, too, that under this expansive view of executive power, Nixon would have gotten away with all of it.
Oh, gosh, there's so many of them.
I would say, you know, the most egregious ones from the last administration really have to do with the obstruction of justice, pardoning Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, where a federal judge said on the record, and I'm paraphrasing, that this looks like it's to cover up and silence a witness.
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